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...offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa's wife (Josephine Poszywak) and the wife of his pal, Owen Bert Brennan (Alice Johnson). Test Fleet got its trucks through the good offices of a Detroit trucking firm, Commercial Carriers, Inc., which then leased the equipment back from Test Fleet. The wives invested only $4,000 in cash in the venture, borrowed $50,000 more-on a note signed by Commercial Carriers...
Bert Beveridge. Commercial's accountant kept the Test Fleet books for four years at no salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden...
...Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's men. ABC will offer top pro golfers-Gary Middlecoff, Sam Snead...
This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...
Like Graham Greene, Irish Novelist Hanley dotes on the guilt on the candelabra. He has given his protagonist the usual "failed-priest face," the customary taste for booze, and the symbolical death -Brennan falls from the height of Gaudi's grotesque unfinished Barcelona Church of the Holy Family. It is all pretty thick stuff, but an angry, eloquent passion against the paralyzing Red ticks in Europe's soft underbelly redeems it from mere melodrama...